Spotlight on Vocabulary: Multiple-Meaning Words (Grades 4-8)

The main goal of Spotlight on Vocabulary books is to help students recognize and use specific strategies to enrich their skills for understanding and using an increasingly rich vocabulary. Multiple-Meaning Words teaches students that many words have more than one meaning that is not always the same part of speech.

Outcomes:
- Increase flexibility in vocabulary and thinking
- Understand and use multiple meanings for words
- Understand puns and their use in humor

The book has:
- age-appropriate, curricular vocabulary
- gradual progression in difficulty to build student success
- light demands for spelling and writing
- a pretest/posttest

One-page lessons in a variety of interesting formats teach students:     
- multiple-meaning words can be the same or different parts of speech
- to match different meanings with the same word
- to identify and use multiple-meaning words
- to identify possible meanings of a message

An answer key is included.